This week ELCA Bishop of the North Texas-Northern Louisiana Mission Area, Kevin S. Kanouse wrote a blog (see here) calling those who support Chick-fil-A bullies and he blamed “preachers (?)” for people going to show their support for Chick-fil-A. This after the widespread temper tantrum and bullying from liberals and homosexuals against Chick-fil-A’s president for stating he believes in the Biblical view of one man, one woman marriage. Notice, too, that the ELCA bishop disparages the preachers by placing a question mark after referencing them, apparently implying that he questions whether they are true Christian preachers.

ELCA Bishop Kanouse mockingly wrote that the “faithful flocked to the chicken bastion of moral godliness to feast on chicken sandwiches. . .”

Later, Bishop Kanouse said, “In truth our country celebrated a national day of bullying last week.”

And Bishop Kanouse, proving that he doesn’t understand or respect Scripture much at all, made this statement, “. . .the bullied. That's another word, like homosexuality, that Jesus did not utter as recorded in the New Testament. . .” (read here)

One of the main points Bishop Kanouse tried to make was his belief that Jesus “would not have been inside Chick-fil-A. No, he was not about sit-ins and causes.” I say, that statement and thought is not an honest and true portrayal of the Biblical, historic Jesus.

Bishop Kanouse is part of a denomination which calls homosexuality “good.” Because of that, and the ELCA’s twisted view of the Bible, many in the ELCA do not like when Christians hold to Biblical Truth (and apparently when they stand up for one another when the world tries to bully Christians for their beliefs). You are wrong, Bishop Kanouse, if you think Jesus would not have supported the words of the president of Chick-Fil-A and the thousands of people who showed up to support the company who was being bullied for their Christian values. Jesus stood up for what was right. He chased the moneychangers out of the temple, he sternly warned others who were leading people away from God’s truth, and among many other instances, he supported the actions of Mary when her sister Martha complained about her.

Bob Russell said this in a blog he wrote, “Did Jesus condemn John the Baptist for speaking out against a politician? No. Jesus said “Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist” (Matthew 11:11) (read here)

After reading drivel like Bishop Kanouse’s blog and hundreds of ELCA articles like it, it is easy to see that the ELCA is a extremely liberal church that does not understand and in many ways despises Bible-believing, Christ-following Christians. Unfortunately many ELCA leaders also have a one-dimensional view of Jesus which changes Christ into a social justice leader and not much of a Savior.

I have come to the conclusion there are those that believe in God and those who think they are God. Jesus clearly defines marriage as a union of one man and one woman with absolute reference to the creation of Adam and Eve. Marriage between one man and one woman is a Holy Estate ordained by Almighty God. This is a denomination that views the creation story as a myth which would destroys credibility of Christs definition of marriage and Christ Himself. Complete heresy of the worst kind.

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Didaskalos

8/13/2012 01:06:12 am

Where would Jesus be on the issue of homosexuality, Bishop Kanouse?

He'd be exactly where he was with the woman caught in adultery, Bishop. He would protect her from excessive and unjust treatment, but He wouldn't excuse her sin. He would tell the homosexual protestor outside Chick-fil-A exactly what He told the woman: "Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more."

And if the homosexual questioned why homosexual acts are sinful, He would say, "“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?"

How unlike Jesus are the Bible-bowdlerizing, sin-excusing, world-appeasing leaders of the ELCA.

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rhema

8/14/2012 03:41:44 am

Speaking of bowdlerizing the Bible to expunge sins the world says churches should not be identifying as sin, why does the ELCA arbitrarily stop with homosexuality?

The ELCA has been practicing invidious sex discrimination, picking and choosing denominational favorites in its "how can we get the world to like us better" repudiation of Bible injunctions like those in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, . . . nor adulterers, . . . nor homosexuals, . . . will inherit the kingdom of God."

Since extending its post-August 2009 welcome to Pastors Bjorn and Cindi, who solemnly attest they are in ELCA-approved "publicly accountable, life-long, monogamous" same-sex relationships with their respective partners, how can the ELCA deny the same effusive approval to, say, Youth Pastor Joey, who vows that his fornication with live-in girlfriend Tammy will be life-long and monogamous? Marriage is so yesterday, say these thoroughly modern sophisticates and their circle of friends.

Similarly, how can the ELCA turn a cold denominational shoulder to, say, Pastor Ted if he swears that his adulterous relationship with church organist Marjorie will be life-long and monogamous? After all, it's not Ted's and Marjorie's fault that their balky spouses have refused to grant them a no-financial-strings-attached divorce, and those donations and membership numbers at Ted's church *have* declined rather precipitously since the August 2009 ELCA convention.

(For that matter, how can the ELCA subjectively exclude from its pastoral ranks the unrepentant idolators, thieves, revilers, drunkards, and swindlers also named in 1 Corinthians 6?)

If the ELCA really wants the world's unstinting approval it's been earnestly seeking for decades, it needs to wholly expunge 1 Corinthians 6 from its Bibles and pledge total fealty to the world's "there's no sin in any kind of consensual sex" creed. It's clearly time for another sin-whitewashing, Bible-bowdlerizing, let's-be-even-more-inclusive ELCA convention vote.

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Dan Skogen

Former ELCA seminary student and former ELCA member who is fed up with the ELCA's consistent mockery of God's Word.

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